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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Salvatore tell his mother about Assunta?
(a) She is an angel among angels.
(b) She is a beauty like no other.
(c) She is mean, mean, mean.
(d) She is ugly as the devil.

2. What did foreigners say about Italian fishermen when they saw Salvatore on the beach?
(a) They were unfortunate peasants.
(b) They were hard workers.
(c) They were lazy devils.
(d) They were the salt of the earth.

3. What simile is used to describe Salvatore's hands while he bathes his children?
(a) Like cold stones.
(b) Like buzzing bees.
(c) Like flowers.
(d) Like sandpaper.

4. How many children did Assunta and Salvatore have?
(a) None.
(b) Two.
(c) Eight.
(d) Four.

5. How does the narrator describe Salvatore's manners after marrying Assunta and moving to their home?
(a) Aristocratic.
(b) Peasant-like.
(c) Beautiful.
(d) Barbaric.

Short Answer Questions

1. What rare quality does the narrator say he was trying to paint a portrait of in his story "Salvatore"?

2. Who does Salvatore cry to when he returns home after learning he is not to be married to the girl he loved?

3. Why did Assunta not marry the man to whom she had been engaged?

4. What was Assunta able to purchase for Salvatore if they married?

5. How does Salvatore feel toward his ex-fiance after learning they will not marry?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Salvatore washing his babies near the end of the story?

2. What did Salvatore do for work after he and Assunta married?

3. What does the narrator say he set out to do in the story?

4. Why does Salvatore understand that the girl he loves will not marry him?

5. Though Salvatore found Assunta physically unattractive, what could she offer him if they married?

6. What happened to Assunta's fiancé?

7. What would Salvatore do if his rheumatism became too bad for him to work?

8. What did Salvatore's fiancé tell him "with the blunt directness of her race" (5) when he went to see her at her home after he returned rom military service?

9. How did Salvatore's family learn he was not going to marry the girl he loved?

10. How is Assunta described after she and Salvatore marry? What does she look like? What type of person is she?

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